The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest

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When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect: Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest (2011, methodology): “Two considerations that could be influenced by disclosure are especially relevant: strategic considerations and moral considerations (Cain et al. 2005).”
For better or for worse? Empirical evidence of moral licensing in a behavioral energy conservation campaign (2013, background): “…on racism (Merritt et al., 2012; Bradley-Geist et al., 2010; Effron et al., 2009; Monin and Miller, 2001), disclosure of conflicts of interests (Cain et al., 2005a, 2005b), donations (Strahilevitz and Myers, 1998; Khan and Dhar, 2006), sexism (Monin and Miller, 2001), nutrition (Wilcox et al.,…”
Bounded awareness: what you fail to see can hurt you (2007, background): “This type of change blindness illustrates the “slippery slope” theory of unethical behavior (Cain et al., 2005), which predicts that individuals are more likely to engage in unethical behavior that occurs in small increments than in unethical behavior that occurs suddenly.”
Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything (2014, neutral): “In a series of stylized experiments, the same authors showed that moral licensing was sufficiently strong that conflicted advisors were better off, and advice recipients were worse off, when a conflict was disclosed, as compared to the same situation but without disclosure (Cain et al. 2005).”